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Reply to "assorted phony art on ebay"

You know what, I ended up sending the link to the person. Have heard nothing, not that I'd expect to hear anything. Sent a question and the link to the seller too, out of curiosity, on the last day of the item, naturally I never heard back. Wonder if it's a generally honest seller but cutting corners in this instance, or just an out and out swindler. Certainly it isn't a case where one person or group of persons has listed the same item twice in succession under 2 different names, as the matting and framing are different. Maybe the 2 sellers are not congenital cheats but they happened to pick up the item from the same scam artist at a weekend fair or something.

The amount of fake art on ebay is appalling enough, and much of it is so crude it's amazing they get any bids at all, let alone from seasoned ebayers, to all appearances. My favorite one recently was this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/signed-VINCENT-quality-Pencil-Water...QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Some person bid assiduously on this rubbish.... Then again, I very nearly bid on a blurry picture of an EH Shepard fake.
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